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by john-shaffer 6y ago
That's reassuring to hear.
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
> The worst of the alt-right are far, far worse than the worst of the extreme left (antifa, maybe? Though there is no alt-left). There are people that support Stalin and Mao, which is just bad as supporting Hitler.
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
Admins tell the moderators how to act, and remove mods when they don't comply. Most content is effectively invisible unless it's heavily upvoted, so mods only really need to act on a small subset of posts. Some subreddits are mode
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
> What's wrong with just saying that it's their platform and they have the right to set the rules? 1) They don't want to alienate people who care about free speech. 2) A lot of people liked reddit because it was user-drive
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
You seriously need to step friending violent neo-fascists.
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
> “A soldier is reasoning agent,” a military court explained in the 1991 case U.S. v. Kinder, in which a soldier who killed a civilian was convicted of murder on the grounds that his superior’s order to do so was obviously illegal and sh
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
That's $800/month for a tiny artist that would otherwise be making about $0/month. > I don't tour, I don't sell merch and I'm not on a major label. I'm just a small indie artist making music in my eveni
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
It seems that by "smart" she meant "knowledgeable", in particular about how things work in her field. Of course people at the top know more (on average) about how the industry works. They are in a position to know.
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
> If you wanted to even it out to 64 characters, you could create a "modified base-64"... My go-to encoding is base64url in RFC 4648. It's simply base64 with - instead of + and _ instead of /. In a case like this wher
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
Apple has thought of this and every other workaround that I've seen proposed. It's against the "rules", and they will ban you from their store.
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
It's a civil matter, not criminal. Extradition is irrelevant. The states agreed to honor court decisions in other states in Article 4 of the Constitution: "Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Rec
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
This is false. You have to explicitly find and enable ads on Brave. The vast majority of users probably have no idea that they can see ads. Have you ever used Brave? Even once?
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
S3's use of separate servers for website hosting is actually very sensible. Options like usage of index.html and error.html only apply on the website servers and won't cause any surprises for people using the service as a key-obje
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
> I can insist that there is skill in coin toss too. There is a detailed analysis in 10.3 "How to cheat at coin and die tossing" of E.T. Jaynes's Probability Theory.
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
That was a bug. It was fixed with this release, and swannodette added a test to ensure the size stays under 10k bytes: https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/commit/5d64c2a142e5...
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
I would not use Wordpress to serve a large site directly unless I had no other choice. You can create a much simpler, faster, scalable and more secure architecture using WP2Static ( https://wp2static.com/ ) to publish static
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by john-shaffer 7y ago
> (first 1 2 3) evaluates to 1, (second 1 2 3) evaluates to 2, and (last 1 2 3) evaluates to – you guessed it – 3. This is wrong, unfortunately. He probably meant (first '(1 2 3)), etc.
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by john-shaffer 7y ago
I set this, even though I've blacklisted Google on Firefox. (I just use Chromium if I need to use Gmail). But, how can I stop Google collecting data on my phone? I was initially blocking Google because of censorship, but I can't f